Cole crops

Coniothyrium minitans Contans White mold, leafdrop Cole crops, beans, tomatoes, carrots, lettuce Fungicide... 

Uses Disulfoton is a yellowish oil. It is grouped by the USEPA under RUP and therefore must be handled by qualified and trained applicators. Disulfoton is a selective systemic insecticide and acaricide. It is specifically effective against sucking insects and is used to control aphids, leafhoppers, thrips, beet flies, spider mites, and coffee leaf-miners. Disulfoton products are used on cotton, tobacco, sugar beets, cole crops, com, peanuts, wheat, ornamentals, cereal grains, and potatoes.28... 

Tolfenpyrad is the only insecticide of this class. It is active against diamondback moths and aphids on cole and cucurbit crops. Its oral LD30 in rats is >100 mg/kg. 

Use Insecticide for cotton, cole crops, lettuce, potatoes. 

The brassicas of importance as foods include turnips, rutabagas, mustards, and the cole crops — cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and brussels sprouts. The production of isothiocyanates in brassicas is via an enzymatic reaction on specific glycosides. Some of the isothiocyanates, especially allylthiocyanate, are highly pungent and are mainly responsible for the odors of brown mustard, horseradish, cabbage, and other crucifers. Any process that destroys or inactivates enzymes in these plants will cause decreases in aroma production, resulting in a less distinctive flavor. This is usually the case when brassica foodstuffs are commercially preserved. 

Most of the triazine tolerant weed biotypes Identified to date have economic relatives but few if any are as closely related to economic crops as the birds rape. To date, this cytoplasm has been transfered to oilseed rape, rutabaga and oriental mustard by several breeding groups. Partial cross-compatibi 1 ity with several other Brassica species including the cole crops, and other more distantly related species (eg, Diplotaxis and Raphanus species) may permit transfer by classical methods (perhaps assisted by embryo rescue techniques). Chloroplast or mitochondrial X nuclear Incompatibilities however, may limit this potential. As other triazine tolerant weed biotypes emerge, opportunities for transfer to closely related economic species by classical methods may evolve. 

Much research (Chilcott and Cole, 1918 Hume, 1943 Kohnke and Bertrand, 1956 Russell, 1956 Wells, 1956 Younts and York Jr., 1956 Brind, 1957 Robertson et al., 1957 Fehrenbacher et al., 1958 Patrick Jr. et al., 1959 Jamison et al., 1960 Larson et al., 1960 Hobbs et al., 1961 and Brill et al., 1965), has been conducted on the effects of deep plowing and subsoiling on crop yields. These studies, which were often initiated in the hope of securing marked benefits, have almost always yielded disappointing results. 

Cole, D. J., Rodgers, M. W. Plant Molecular Biology for Herbicide-Tolerant Crops and Discovery of New Herbicide Targets in Herbicides and Their Mechanisms of Action, Cobb, A., Kirkwood, R. C. (Eds.), ShefSeld Academic Press, Sheffield, UK, 2000, 239-278. 

The consuming public is frequently unaware of the dietetic importance of Brassica oilseed crops since their oil and meal products are usually processed and blended as they enter the food chain. On the other hand, almost every consumer is familiar with their close relatives, the cole vegetables such as cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts, the condiment mustards, and the root crops of turnips, rutabagas and radishes. Many farmers directly feed forage rapes and kales while others attempt to rid their fields of weedy species such as black and wild mustard. 

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